On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Steven Roberts wrote:> Kai Henningsen wrote:> > goemon@sasami.anime.net (Dan Hollis) wrote:> > > I have *destroyed* seagate scsi drives by syslog's fsync'ing too much.> > > (A syslog server handling 50 syslog lines/sec on average)> > > After 2 destroyed drives in 2 months, one learns rather quickly to turn> > > off fsync action.> > I should think what one learns is to avoid Seagate drives.> agreed... I once had the misforntune of moving data from a maxtor drive> that sounded> like it was going to die to a seagate barracuda. within a week the> seagate drive blew itself up (mostly idle machine even)... it of course> had to coincide with my tape drive going bad so no backups... though it> is good learning experience on the internals of ext2 doing a manually> undelete of 100's of MB's :) -- and of course maxtor is still working> great in my linux box that acts as my internet gateway (the drive has> been in 24/7 use since '93 or so when I first installed linux 0.99pl11)

I've also destroyed maxtors with synchronous syslog. I dont think anydrive is up to the task of 50 writes/sec on the same spot on the disk 24/7for weeks on end.

-Dan

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